Safeguarding Data From Big Brother Sven?

An anonymous reader writes "Now that the Swedish government (in its infinite wisdom) has passed a law allowing them to monitor email traffic, a question that I think a lot of people are asking (or at least should be asking) is: 'What can I do to improve my privacy?' The answer is not obvious. So, what are the best solutions for seamless email encryption, search privacy, etc? What are your experiences with PGP vs GPG vs ...? In this day and age, why is the use of this type of privacy technologies still so limited? Why isn't there a larger movement promoting the use of privacy tools? Also, what is in your opinion the largest privacy concern? Search tracking? Email transfer? I believe this is an interesting question not only for Swedes, but for everyone. Lots of traffic is passing through Sweden, but more importantly, the Swedish government is not alone in using this type of surveillance." Reader j1976 writes with a related question: "For most users with email addresses within large organizations, implementing their own email encryption scheme is not feasible, partly because of the technological aspects, but also since users in organizations often do not have administrative access to their workstations. What can an organization do, centrally, to lift the burden of encryption from the users? Are there any transparent schemes for email encryption which could be installed for the organization as a whole?"

Comments

Re:Someone please remind me...

[SBacks]

I'm an uncultured idiot, you insensitive clod!

Why not make the government's job easier

[bigtrike]

And CC all of your email to the everyone in charge of this agency. Any good patriot should do this, just be sure the nation is secure even if the email monitoring system goes down.

Re:On NPR...

[sYkSh0n3]

who thinks that being pro-environment means you also have to want to tax the rich and ban guns, or vice versa.

ban the rich and tax guns? I'm not sure how that would help....

Re:Sweden's just being honest about it

[Braino420]

How do you know the Firefox download repository hasn't been hacked, and evil certificates inserted?

I don't, I compile everything from source and build my own compilers in hardware so I know there is no backdoor. I don't get out alot.